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Low-angle film still from the sticky carpet of a cheap motel room, looking up past a wooden chair. Black-and-white noir grade with a single saturated red, heavy 35mm grain, deep shadows, hard slats of neon light cutting across the room, rain streaking the window glass. An East Asian girl perches on the edge of a rumpled bed in a cramped roadside motel at night, a long black trench coat worn open and slipping off both shoulders, beneath it only a black satin cone-cup bullet bra with small satin bows, and black oil gloss tights, thick opaque glossy full pantyhose with a mirror-bright sheen pulled to the natural waist, smooth over hips and bottom. One leg is propped with her heel planted on the wooden chair seat in the near foreground, her black-glossy foot looming large, sole turned toward the window so red neon slats stripe across the arch; her other leg dangles, bare heel swinging. She sits in three-quarter profile, gazing out the rain-streaked window, not at the camera, a long ivory cigarette holder trailing pale smoke between two fingers; dewy glass skin, rose-gloss lips slightly parted, straight natural brows, long lashes lowered, puffy lower lids catching the light. Hair: jet-black glossy finger-soft waves to the shoulders in a deep side part, one wave curling over one eye; a thin red silk ribbon choker at her throat; small silver hoop earrings. Set: dented metal headboard, a suitcase spilling clothes on the bed, a half-drunk glass of amber liquor on the nightstand, a ceiling fan blurred in the dark above; rain running down the window in sheets; outside, a flickering red VACANCY neon sign and a passing police car's white headlight sweep throwing moving blind-like shadows across the walls, the sheets and her raised stockinged foot; the red neon reflected in long wavering lines on the glossy tights.